Show A yankee in the court below the court was sitting and business seemed to be carried en on with nith N ith a dispatch quite unknown to our tupper upper tribunals presently one of the con constables s tables called out virgil hoskins virgil hoskins Hoskin sl here chere answered a yankee pedlar walking up to the bar was seated with a great number of huge account books before him virgil hoskins is is your name is it said he here it is among the Hs pp ap ch Virgil IVirgil there is a terrible long account against apul you lets see a few of the charges virgil hoskins dr june 27 18 to selling in the course of one edlin ediin expedition wooden nutmegs nut megs 2 spanish ei cigars made ad of oak leaves add and wooden clock clocks 28 what do you say to that charge hoskins Ho hoskins skirls say isay to it Why that was counted in our place about the greatest bedlin tri trl trip IP that was ever made over the potomac 7 june 29 18 to stealing an old grindstone covering it with cotton cloth smearing it over with butter and selling in it as cheese linskins li hoskins in great surprise Jimm inyl J you punish a man for that aou would d you december 13 18 to making a counterfeit dollar out of pewter when you were six years old and cheatie cheating 0 your own father with ftp it hoskins bli my bly parent was real glad when he found it bout he said that it showed I 1 had a genius enius p ito to taking a worn out pair of shoes which you found on the road and sellin selling them to ari an old lady as being the actual shoes shores of st paul 2 hoskins with exultation 1 I made four dollars and a half by that operation Rhada manthus marthus july july 2 18 to taking an empty old watchcase watch case putting a live cricket into it and then selling it as a patent lever in full motion hoskins jellel he hel he hel wal that was one of the cutest tricks I 1 ever played in all my life lit it would occupy me a week hoskins Ho skins akins to go through r all the charges against you I 1 really am getting out of patience with new england for it gives me more trouble than all the rest of the world put together you are sentenced to be thrown into a lake of boiling molasses where nearly all I 1 your countrymen already are with that same told jold old oid grindstone tied to your neck |